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Charles  G.  D.  Roberts 


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The  Watchers  of  the  Trails 

HIS    SKCOND    BOOK 
OF     ANIMAL     LIFE 


With  iumt  mention  aLo  of  hu  complete  worki 


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Charles  G.  D.  Roberts 


AND 


The  Watchers  of  the  Trails 

HIS  NKW  BOOK  OF  ANIMAL  LIFK 

CHARLKS     GEORGE       DOUGLAS 
ROBERTS,    M.A.,   F.  R.  S.  C,    F  R. 

S.  L.,  was  born  in  Douglas,  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Keswick  River,  near  Fredericton,  N.  B. 
His  early  boyhood  was  spent  in  Westcockj 
of  which  parish  his  father  was  rector,  and  the 
experiences  of  those  early  years  have  colored 
his  life  ever  since. 

Born  with  an  intense  love  for  nature,  ani- 
mate and  inanimate,  full  of  eager  curiosity  to 
solve  her  secrets,  much  of  his  time  was  spent 
m  the  woods  and  fields  about  his  home. 
There  he  learned  the  ways  of  wild  creatures, 
grew  to  know  their  instincts  and  habits,  gained 
his  knowledge  of  woodcraft,  and,  because  he 
had  the  soul  of  a  poet,  saw  beauty  in  all  things 


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that  touched  his  fancy,  and  dreamed  d^ 

wt"''  \'  ""'j'  =•  f'-"^  P°«  t"n. 

When  he  was  fourteen,  his  people  moved 

teS;  f  ,  •,  '   P^'"«^d    he    became   a 

teacher  for  awhile,  but  the  literary  instinct 
was  s  rong  w.thin  him  and,  in  .895,- he  aba" 
doned  other  pursuits  and  forn,allv  adopted  the 
profession  of  literature,  with  the  utn  os'  fust  fi 
cation  tor  few  men  of  his  years  have  achieved 
-and  deservedly -the  literary  renown  whkh 
his  published  works  warrant.  i"^^"  «'hich 

V  '?,  '^V  ''?'"'^^S"'-  Roberts  removed  to  New 
York,  where  he  has  since  resided,  but  noVaH 
the  <  m  Of  noisy  streets,  the  never-ceasing  rush 
of  hte  in  a  great  metropolis,  nor  the  thousand 
and  one  distractions  that  beset  the  city  dwdl  ^ 

na^u're     Lrr    '°    '^""    '^'^    ^een'love   fo; 
nature ,  that  love  comes  to  the  front  in  what 

ever  he  writes  and  his  books  are  full  of  out-of" 

doot  atmosphere  that  breathes  in  their  pales 

A^pJeV':";  '  ""  ^S™"^^  of  their  o^wf' 

A   poet,   a   lover  of  nature,   an   essayist    a 

novelist,  and  one  of  the  most  'acute  aTd'^sym! 


pathet,c  students  of  animal  life  this  country 
knows  !  Whatever  he  gives  us  is  good  meas- 
ure pressed  down  and  running  over,  but  the 
work  that  he  loves  best  to  do\re  those  mar! 
vellous  dehneat.ons  of  the  life  in  the  Canadian 
backwoods  and  t.de  country,  which  his  early 
childhood   made  familiar.  ^ 

The    two    volumes    of    nature   and    animal 


stories  which  he  has  already  issued,  "  Earth's 
t.nigmas      and  "  The  Kindred  of  the  Wild  " 
have  shown   him    to   be   unsurpassed    in    this 
f    I  ^"-^  '^  volume,  "  The  Watchers 

ot   the  Trails,"  now  in   preparation,  will   add 
new  laurels. 

"The  Watchers  of  the  Trails  "  is  a  com- 
panion volume  to  "  The  Kindred  of  the  Wild  " 
and  is  a  collection  of  his  latest  stories,  written 

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with  that  same  sincer- 
ity and  truthfulness 
which  marked  their 
forerunners.  Like 
the  stories  in  "  Kin- 
dred," these  tales  are 
redolent  of  the  deep 
forest,  and  full  of  the 
wonderful  descriptions 
of  the  magical  beauty 
the  author's  eyes  have 
seen.  Each  one  has 
directness  and  defini- 
tion and  action  ;  each  one  shows  the  ways  of 
nature  with  her  children  ;  and  each  one  is  told 
with  fine  restraint  and  the  most  subtle  art. 

Of  "Earth's  Enigmas,"  Richard  Hovey 
said  :  "  The  problem  of  the  struggle  for  exist- 
ence, of  the  preying  of  life  on  life,  is  treated 
with  an  inexorable  fidelity  to  the  fact,  a  catholic 
sympathy,  a  sense  of  universality  and  mystery, 
and  a  calm  acceptance,  tnat  reaches  the  level 
of  '  pathos '  in  the  highest  Greek  usage  of 
the  word.     There  is  a  finality  in  these  prose 


poems    that   is    known    only    to    the    greatest 


art. 


Mr.  Roberts's  nature  stories  are  full  of  the 
secret  symbolism  of  woods  and  waters.  He 
makes  his  readers  feel  the  charm  and  solitude 


of  the  forest,  and,  while  his  tales  require  imag- 
mation,  they  infer  as  well  human  tenderness 
and  knowledge.  And,  best  of  all,  they  are 
true,  for  Mr.  Roberts  is  a  naturalist.'  He 
catches  accurately  the  elusive  individualities  of 

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which  he  writes,  and  his  portrayals  are  master- 
pieces of  sympathetic  science. 

"  The  Kindred  of  th^  Wild,"  his  superb 
collection  of  animal  stories,  met  with  such 
unanimous  praise,  that  one  is  confronted  with 
an  embarrassment  of  riches  when  trying  to 
select  a  few  representative  extracts  from  the 
reviews  of  the  critics  and  the  public.  In  the 
Atlantic  Monthly^  John  Burroughs  wrote : 
"  One  finds  much  to  commend  and  admire. 
The  volume  is,  in  many  ways,  the  most  bril- 
liant collection  of  animal  stories  that  has 
appeared ; "  and  the  review  in  the  Boston 
'transcript  reads  as  follows :  "  To  'The  Kin 
dred  of  the  Wild '  a  welcome  may  unhesi- 
tatingly be  given,  for  it  is  a  collection  of 
stories  into  which  the  author 
has  put  all  the  zest  of  a  gen- 
uine enthusiasm,  and  the 
result  is  a  volume  of  excep- 
tional interest  and  merit." 
The  San  Francisco  Chronicle 
said:  "Mr.  Roberts  is  a 
story-teller  who  has  no  living  - 


superior  in 
romance  of 
est."  The  Sl 
Democrat 
is  nothing 
than     Mr. 


bringing  out  the 
life  in  the  for- 
Louis  Globe- 
writes :  "  There 
finer  in  literature 
Roberts's     p  i  c- 


ture  of  the  Northern  woods  on  a  moonlit 
winter  night."  The  Philadelphia  Press  said  : 
"  Professor  Roberts  has  rarely  done  better 
literary  work.  Some  of  his  verse  may  excel 
it,  but  only  that."  The  New  Tork  Evening 
Post :  "  It  is  a  masterpiece  of  its  kind."  The 
Chicago  Tribune :  "  No  more  perfect  achieve- 
ment of  its  kind  has  come  from  the  hand  of 
man,"  and  the  Brooklyn  Eagle  credits  it  with 
being  "  incomparably  the  best  in  literature  that 
has  grown  up  about  animals." 


IP':.  '-T  ^ 


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SPECIMEN    ILLUSTRATION 


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And  so  we  might  go  on  and  on,  adding 
more  extracts  from  the  flood  of  commendation 
that  poured  in  from  all  sections  of  the  country, 
—  commendation  that  will  undoubtedly  be  re- 
peated when  "  The  Watchers  of  the  Trails  " 
appears. 

Though  the  problems  of  animal  life  and 
nature  appeal  especially  to  him,  and  his  bril- 


liant tales  of  the  perils  of  the  untamed  wilder- 
ness may  be  his  particular  metier,  Mr.  Roberts 
is  by  no  means  a  singer  of  a  single  note.  His 
keen  and  sympathetic  analysis  of  human  char- 
acter and  his  rare  and  delightful  powers  of 
description  are  employed  to  equal  advantage 
in  his  romances  and  novels. 

"  A  Sister  to  Evangeline,"  "  The  Forge  in 
the  Forest,"  and  "  By  the  Marshes  of  Minas  " 


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are  all  romances  of  the  country  of"  Our  Lady 
ot  the  Snows,"  and  written  with  the  exquisite 
care  and  taste  that  distinguishes  his  work. 

"  The  Heart  of  the  Ancient  Wood,"  half 
romance,  half  nature  story,  is  in  Mr.  Roberts's 
own  opinion  "  the  best  sustained  work  of  fic- 
tion I  have  yet  done."  When  it  appeared  in 
1900,  stern  critics  and  impassive  reviewers 
found  themselves  breaking  forth  into  enthusi- 
astic admiration  of  its  beauty.  It  is  a  story  of 
a  strange,  elfin  child,  growing  up  in  the  forest, 
with  its  beasts  as  her  playfellows,  but  coming 
at  last  into  her  woman's  heritage  of  human 
love,  which,  once  read,  will  never  be  forgotten. 

His  last  novel,  "  Barbara  Ladd,"  was  a  tale 


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of  Colonial  days,  and  of  a  beautiful,  charming, 
bewitching  Southern  girl,  who  gleams  against 
the  sober  Northern  background  like  a  scarlet 
flower  against  the  dusky  leafage. 

Mr.  Roberts  is  soon  to  publish  a  new  novel, 
"The  Prisoner  of  Mademoiselle,"  with  the 
scene  laid  in  that  land  of  Acadia,  which  he 
loves  so  well.  The  story  is  based  on  the 
famous  siege  of  Louisburg  and  possesses  much 
of  the  witchery  found  in  "  Barbara,"  of  which 
the  Chicago  Evening  Post  said,  "  Barbara  is 
supposed  to  be  prose,  but  there  are  interludes 
that  are  perilously  near  poetry." 

To  Mr.  Roberts's  poetry  one  word  is  always 
applicable,  —  exquisite.  Many  critics  assert 
that  he  is  a  poet  first  and  always,  and  certain 
it  is  that  the  poet  can  always  be  detected 
underneath  the  story-teller's  mask. 

"  The  Book  of  the  Rose  "  was  his  last  pub- 
lished collection  of  verse, — a  chain  of  sweet 
and  tender  love-poems,  that  lilt  along  with 
charming  melody. 

One  may  not  mention  Mr.  Roberts's  works 
without     including      his      authoritative      and 


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scholarly  "History  of  Canada"  (a  new  and 
revised  edition  of  which  is  to  be  issu  1 
immediately),  which  is  the  only  history  of  that 
land  available. 


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COMPLETE    WORKS    OF 


CHARLES    G.    D.    ROBERTS 


* 


THE    PRISONER    OF    MADEMOISELLE 

Ready  in  the  Fall  of  1(^04 

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The  scene  of  this  new  novel  is  laid  in  Mr.  Roberts  s  dearly 
beloved  Acadia,  and  the  incidents  are  based  on  the  famous  siege 
of  Louisburg.  The  hero  is  a  young  liritish  otificer  who  sails  from 
Boston  in  command  of  a  company  of  the  king's  troops,  only  to 
be  taken  captive  by  the  Grand  Seigneur  of  Louisburg,  and  to  fall 
a  prisoner  to  the  charms  of  the  Seigneur's  daughter,  the  fair 
mademoiselle. 

The  story  is  written  in  Mr.  Roberts's  characteristic  style,  and 
is  full  of  delicate  humor  and  dainty  grace  and  fascinating 
touches  of  outdoor  life.  Added  to  that  are  scenes  of  tenseness 
and  strength  which  surpass  those  in  "  The  Forge  in  the  Forest," 
and  it  is  easy  to  be  seen  that  here  is  a  romance  worthy  of 
enrolment  in  the  list  of  Mr.  Roberts's  work. 

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pnniitive  and  the  savage.  »^xponent  of  the 

His  enthusiasm  and  love  of  nature  so  color  his  work  that  hk 

stones  are  not  mere  narratives,  but  wonderful  port  avals  of  thp 

ways  of  Mother  Earth  with  her  children.  P«"rayals  of  the 

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the  n^  r  ?^  ^"7^' .stories  is  a  most  interesting  addition  to 
the  hst  of  nature  classics.  The  author  has  studied  wh  close 
and  unwearied  attention  the  lives  of  the  furred  an  I   fl.thi     ^ 

IZTt^.VrV'"''  1"^""^-^  "^^'  ''""^-^  UaHs  andT's  g it-l n' u ' 
says  the  6>^;r./c^  Ave;mi^i.  Post,  "A   book   that  will  be  fead^   H 

re-read."     The  New  York  Sun  said  of  it,  "  He  makes  nsf.!lt 

solitude  and  charm  of  the  forest,  and   arouLrand   hoil    '''" 

interest  in  the  lives  of  its  inmates."  ^''^^   ^""^ 

K.ARTH'S    ENIGMAS 
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H.n,  'Tr  °^  ^'•- R^^'  '--ts's  first  volume  of  fiction,  the  repeated 
demand  for  which  has  been  stim.dated  by  his  rece.U  ^reat 
successes.  ■'  'ci.eiu   great 

Additional  stories  have  been  included   after   the   manner   of 

thii  .  i'"'^'"''  °^  '^'  ^^'"^•"  ^°^  ^heir  freshness  and  ."nceriU 
these  tales  are  sure  to  arrest  attention.  sincerity 

"  Mr.  Roberts's  prose  art  has  reached  a  high  degree  of  nerfec 
L       ••  '.  \^  ^^-^'1^^^  ^''"S"^^« '  ^here  is  a  wider  ra^ge  of  subiect" 

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savs  the  ^\\,  J  J    ^  "^^•'^•'^age  straight  from  the  heart  of  nature  " 

ar<.culal«  speech."  say,  the  ffZtfy,'^^ll"'  ""^  '"'^''  P"'  """ 
tensely  cl!ama,'T3''!f  .""''u''"-     ^^'"'  ="  "»  ""»"«'  't  is  i,r 

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BARBARA    LADD 
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the  cha,?i  of"  i      "'^'"''^  '°  ""'"^^=    '^"t  i"  "  Barbara^  Ladd-' 
Barbara^  Sli"""'?   '"!"'."''  ^'  ^"^^   '"  ^^^"   stronger  degree 
ST;d%h^%'n%^itl7etir:fT"  l^-T'-Z-P-try  oTth^ 
and  wayward  as  a  wLd  Wrd      Th  '      "'^'  settlement,  brilliant 
heroine^  Mr-'o^e^s't^lfery^fTorlraiU.   "°"  '"^^"^^^"^ 

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THE    FORCiK    IN     FRK    FOREST 

Being  the  Narrative  of  tlie  Acadian  Ranger,  Jean  de  Mer, 
Seigneur  de  Hriart,  and  liow  he  crossed  the  Black  Al)be,  and 
of  his  Adventures  in  a  Strange  Fellowship.  Illustrated  by 
Henry  Sandluun,  K.  ('.  A. 

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The  story  is  one  of  pure  love  and  heroic  adventure  during  the 
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North  America,  and  deals  with  that  Hery  fringe  of  conflict  that 
waved  between  Nova  Scotia  and  New  FIngland. 

A    SISTER    TO    EVANGELINE 

Being  the  Story  of  Yvonne  de  Lamoxirie,  and  how  she  went 

into  FLxile  with  the  V^illagers  of  Grard  Pre. 
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searching  analysis,  characterize  this  strong  novel ;  and  the 
tragic  theme  of  the  exile  is  relieved  by  the  charm  of  the  wilful 
demoiselle  and  the  spirit  of  the  courtly  seigneur,  who  bring  the 
manners  of  old  France  to  the  Acadian  woods. 


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BY    THE    MARSHES    OF    MINAS 

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acknowledged  celebrant.  Plach  tale  is  independent  of  the  others, 
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author's  lighter  and  more  playful  vein;  each  is  a  unit  of  absorb- 
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things,  the  virile  exalted  passion,  the  playfulness,  the  perspective, 
the  splendid  workmanship  of  this  poet  are  apparent  in  all  of 
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HISTORY 

A    HISTORY    OF    CANADA 

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